[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#709900: Bug#709900: alsa-lib: FTBFS with binutils 2.23.2 from experimental: Undefined reference to symbol 'sin'

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Daniel Schepler <dschepler at gmail.com> [2013-05-27 18:49 -0700]:

[...] 
> OK, so binutils has been upgraded past 2.23.2-2 in experimental in
> the meantime.

Hmm, 52 is greater than 2, isn't it?

> But testing with binutils 2.23.52.20130522-1, I can reproduce the
> same error.
>
> And according to Matthias Klose, this is an
> intentional behavior change in binutils upstream,

Frim binutils NEWS file:
Changes in 2.23:

* Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture.

* Add support for x64 Windows target of the delayed-load-library.

* Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture.

Changes in 2.22:
....

Those changes are not that important. So maybe you have to double
check your build environment.

> and it will eventually be uploaded to unstable once gcc-4.7
> and gcc-4.8 updates have filtered through into testing.  Which is why I
> upgraded to this binutils for build testing (along with gcc-defaults ->
> gcc-4.8, make 3.82-1 from experimental, texinfo 5.1 from unstable which is
> stricter about error checking than past versions, etc.).

Let's wait and see......

Elimar
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